 | Laughton Osborn - American fiction - 1841 - 430 pages
...inferiority of the language in which the imitator wrote. Secondly, in the eighth strophe, we hare : " Behold where Dryden's less presumptuous car Wide o'er the fields of glory bear Two coursers of etherial race, With necks in thundir eloth'd, and long-resounding pace." In this very beautiful passage,... | |
 | English literature - 1843 - 234 pages
...with excess of light Behold, where Dryden's less presumptuous car, Closed his eyes in endless night. Wide o'er the fields of glory bear, Two coursers of ethereal race, With necks in thunder clothed, and long-resounding pace. Bright-eyed fancy hovering o'er, Scatters... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...tremble while they gaze, He saw ; but blasted with excess of light, Closed his eyes in endless night. T]X@]\]]] [ $ With necks in thunder clothed, and long-resounding pace. The ' Ode to Eton College,' the ' Ode to Adversity,'... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...tremble while they gaze, He saw ; but blasted with excess of light, Cl'.-sed his eyea in endless night. other. Anybody may see he is an actor.' While Mrs...was thus engaged in conversation with Partridge, a l | With necks in thunder clothed, and long-resounding pace. The ' Ode to Eton College,' the ' Ode to... | |
 | William Collins - English poetry - 1844 - 324 pages
...they gaze, He saw ; but blasted with excess of light, Closed his eyes in endlesn night. * Sfatktpeare. Behold where Dryden's less presumptuous car Wide o'er...fields of glory bear Two coursers of ethereal race, With necks in thunder clothed, and long-resounding pace. III. 3. Bark, his hands the lyre explore I... | |
 | William Collins - English poetry - 1844 - 328 pages
...gaze, He saw ; hut hlasted with excess of light, Cloaed his eyes in endless night. • Shakapeare. l 1 Behold where Dryden's less presumptuous car Wide o'er the fields of glory hear Two coursers of ethereal race, With necks in thunder clothed, and long-resounding pace. III. 3.... | |
 | Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 840 pages
...distance rolls along the gilded coach, Nor sturdy carmen on thy walks encroach. Gay. Trivia, book ii. Behold, where Dryden's less presumptuous car, Wide...fields of glory bear Two coursers of ethereal race With necks in thunder cloth'd, and long resounding pace. Gray. The Progress of Poesy , iii. CARABAYA,... | |
 | Alexander Hill Everett - American literature - 1845 - 590 pages
...that rode sublima Upon the seraph wings of ecstasy." ' Dryden he assigns to an inferior class, — " Behold where Dryden's less presumptuous car, Wide o'er the fields of glory bear Two coursers of inferior race," &c.J The writer observed that the German critics call Dryden a man walking on stilts... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...tremble while they gaze, He saw ; but, blasted with excess of light, Closed his eyes in endless night. Behold, where Dryden's less presumptuous car, Wide o'er the fields of glory bear Two coursers1 of ethereal race, With necks in thunder clothed, and long-resounding pace. III. 3. Hark !... | |
 | George Vandenhoff - Elocution - 1846 - 398 pages
...tremble while they gaze, He saw ; but blasted with excess of light, Closed his eyes in endless night ! Behold where Dryden's less presumptuous car Wide o'er...fields of glory bear Two coursers of ethereal race, Their necks in thunder cloth'd, and long-resounding pace.f Hark, his hands the lyre explore ! Bright-eyed... | |
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He saw ; but blasted with excess of light, Closed his eyes in endless night. Behold where Dryden's less presumptuous car Wide o'er the fields of Glory bear Two coursers of ethereal race, . With necks in thunder clothed, and long-resounding pace. 
